{"id":994,"date":"2022-07-28T15:59:45","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T19:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/?p=994"},"modified":"2026-03-19T09:03:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:03:21","slug":"observed-celestial-motions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/2022\/07\/28\/observed-celestial-motions\/","title":{"rendered":"Observed Celestial Motions"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Observed Celestial Motions<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<center><br>\nMotion of sun on ecliptic, 1 degree\/day, W to E; Moon, 12 degrees\/day, W to E<!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><p><strong>E<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/files\/observedCelestialMotions1.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"119\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-995\" style=\"display: inline !important;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/files\/observedCelestialMotions1.gif 450w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/files\/observedCelestialMotions1-300x79.gif 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/files\/observedCelestialMotions1-414x109.gif 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><strong>W<\/strong><\/p><!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><p>Sun-linked motion of inferior planets (max. elongational: 29 degrees and 47 degrees)<br>\n<strong>E<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/files\/observedCelestialMotions2.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"117\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1049\" style=\"display: inline !important;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/files\/observedCelestialMotions2.gif 450w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/files\/observedCelestialMotions2-300x78.gif 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/files\/observedCelestialMotions2-414x108.gif 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><strong>W<\/strong><\/p><!--PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR--><p>Retrograde motion of superior planets.<br>\n<strong>E<\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/files\/observedCelestialMotions3.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"106\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1050\" style=\"display: inline !important;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/files\/observedCelestialMotions3.gif 450w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/files\/observedCelestialMotions3-300x71.gif 300w, https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/files\/observedCelestialMotions3-414x98.gif 414w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><strong>W<\/strong><br>\n<\/p><\/center>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Figures represent motions of the sun, moon, and planets (looking south, for those in the northern hemisphere) against the background of fixed stars.  Meanwhile, of course, the stars and everything else move from East to West daily.<\/p>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"off","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-of-science","category-study-guide"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=994"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1325,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/994\/revisions\/1325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/ufhatch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}